Moncrieff and Hood disappearance

Quand

10 janv. 1928

Type

Catastrophe aérienne

Coordonnées

41.20° S, 174.00° E

Description

1928 disappearance of New Zealand aviation pioneers

Deaths

2

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1928 disappearance of New Zealand aviation pioneers

Lieutenant John Moncrieff and Captain George Hood were two New Zealanders who vanished on 10 January 1928 while attempting the first trans-Tasman flight from Australia to New Zealand. Radio signals were received from their aircraft for 12 hours after their departure from Sydney, but despite a number of purported sightings in New Zealand, and many land searches in the intervening years, no trace of the aviators or the…

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